Lincoln: A National Hero

Of all the great national heroes and [plural noun] of history Lincoln is the only real [noun]. Alexander, Frederick the [adjective], Caesar, Napoleon, Gladstone and even Washington [verb] in greatness of [noun], in depth of [noun] and in a certain moral power far behind Lincoln. Lincoln [past verb] a man of whom a nation has a right to [verb]; he was a Christ in miniature, a [noun] of humanity, whose name will [verb] [number] years in the [body part]-ends of future generations. We are still too near to his [noun], and so can [adverb] appreciate his [adjective] power; but after a few centuries more our posterity will [verb] him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too [adjective] and too [adjective] for the common understanding, just as the [noun] is too hot when its light beams are [adverb] upon us.
